Associate Professor, School of Education, St. Francis Xavier University I am an elementary mathematics educator at St. Francis Xavier University in the BEd and MEd programs as well as the Certificate in Elementary Mathematics Pedagogy program.
Assistant Professor, Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez (she, her, ella) is a Latinx Assistant Professor in Labour Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at SFU. As a community engaged scholar and Public Sociologist, Dr. Encalada Grez has mobilized her migrant-labour research through various media including documentaries and given talks in venues such as Parliament Hill, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and at the United Nations in New York. Currently Dr. Encalada is working on mobilizing research findings from community-engaged research she led on the systemic discrimination of Internationally Trained Physicians in British Columbia. She is also conducting research on the invisible labour undertaken by community workers and organizers who support migrant farmworkers, particularly during the height of he pandemic.
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester Elaine is a senior lecturer in employment law at the University of Manchester and researches mainly in the field of age discrimination law. She has a PhD in law from the National University of Ireland, Cork and completed a post doctoral fellowship in age discrimination law at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Germany. She is the senior expert on Age for the European Equality Law Network.
Senior Lecturer (Applied Ecology and Landscape Management), University of New England 2010. BSc - Wildlife and Fisheries Science - Pennsylvania State University - USA 2013. MSc - Biology - Middle Tennessee State University - USA 2018. PhD - Ecology - James Cook University - Australia
Associate Director of Community Outreach in Thoracic Oncology, University of Miami Dr. Estelamari Rodriguez is Associate Director of Community Outreach and member of the Lung Cancer Site Disease Group of the NCI-designated Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is a board certified in medical oncology and hematology. She has a special interest in the early detection of lung cancer and increasing access to clinical trials. Dr. Rodriguez received her bachelors degree from Columbia College and her medical degree from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia University’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital and her medical oncology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rodriguez also has a master’s degree in Public Health from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. She has given numerous lectures as invited speaker on issues related to lung cancer and healthcare disparities.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University Emily Farris (M.A., Ph.D. Brown University; B.A. Furman University) is an associate professor in Political Science at TCU, who currently completing a book on the power of U.S. sheriffs.